lolhack

May. 24th, 2007 01:05 pm
prog: (tom)
Today's output for screen -DR was not the usual "(New screen)" but "Be careful! New screen tonight."

I cannot grumble about "geek humor" if, in fact, I get the joke. And the joke was presented to me while launching an obscure command-line Unix shell utility.

(Also screen -list prepends its output with "Your inventory:" OK guys.)

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...f.
../..
I HAS A SWORD

Dorkbot

May. 8th, 2007 04:29 pm
prog: (jmac's arcade)
This looks like it might be worth my while to come to and bring some Jmac's Arcades. Anyone wanna come with? I feel antsy that I haven't made any in three months, even though I have the inspiration for the next one; the other pillars just win out in the continual fight over motivation. So this might give it a little boost.



Speaking of the automated dorkiness implied by the subject line, [livejournal.com profile] xach strikes again with another wigflip toy, this one letting you make your own "lolcats"-style images without Photoshop. I started to show my appreciation by taking pictures he's posted of himself and his little son and putting I CAN HAS JUICEBOX or something on it but it didn't feel right, so I'll just talk about it here instead la bla.

Oh, and since it came up in conversation today: you have probably already seen loltrek, which I was amused to discover was by Stephen Grenade and some of the other interactive-fiction people I vaguely know. Good job, guys.
prog: (monkey)
But this is a startlingly accurate breakdown of what my experience working on the volity.net website has been like.
prog: ("The Sixth Finger" guy)
When I was a child I once read "The Killion" by Ian Frazier [link to a contemporary Usenet transcription] in an in-flight magazine during one of the many three-hour plane rides I took with my parents. Too young to see that it was a humor piece, I took it at face value, and my horror and fascination with it would linger for a long time after. I just suddenly thought of it again this morning, perhaps for the first time in 20 years.

A) This article is hilarious.

B) Goodness me, I'm now realizing that for years afterward I thought that some of the jokey "facts" it states with a straight face were true, probably long after I remembered where I learned them. These included "a zillion" being an integer like any other, and that all computers ever made had "a governor" installed to prevent them from working with dangerously high numbers.
prog: (Default)
No longer automatically funny: zombies, and zombie accessories ("braains" et al)

[Flying graphic resembling "DONE" if stamped with a "DONE" stamp swoops in and lands with a THUDD diagonally over frame, fades.]

Feel free to remind me of this the next time I make a zombie joke.

I think I have been tired by all the stock "geek humor" characters for a while actually. (Free feel to remind me of this etc.)

Somewhat relatedly, let me use this space to announce that I'm purposefully going to avoid taking another programming job, even if I have to take a job sometime in the future. I actually have been consciously thinking for a while now that I've lost any will to hack on things I don't really care about. Or rather, to care about things solely because I'm paid to hack on them. (Feel free etc.)
prog: (Default)
I am laughing to blueness at a collection of intentionally bad LotR photoshops involving cars. I haven't laughed so hard since the G.I. Joe things. Hmm, maybe you should skip this one.

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